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As what was still called an ‘undergraduate’ at Cambridge in 1945, I had an advantage, alas, denied to my more recent successors. The economics faculty at that time was not swamped by a narrow philosophic school, but included powerful exponents of economic freedom in the tradition of Alfred Marshall, including particularly Dennis Robertson, Stanley Dennison and Alan Prest, as well as unconcealed adherents of socialism and communism in Joan Robinson and Maurice Dobb. In between, there were more neutral offerings from such as Harold Kirkaldy, Austin Robinson and Claude Guillebaud.
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Harris, R. (1985). Can Democracy be Tamed?. In: Matthews, R.C.O. (eds) Economy and Democracy. British Association for the Advancement of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17970-1_9
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